Product Overview
Cosmetically a little beat up, as most vintage pedals of this one's age. Signs of use means it is a pedal that fit the player's bill for a long, long time. As most vnitage Maxon vintage pedals do. Tested as working to spec.
Does not include box or manual, pedal only.
Released outside Japan under the Ibanez brand, the Maxon PT-909 was a follow up to the earlier one-knob PT-999. While the earlier model only has one control to set the rate of the phase effect, the PT-909 adds "Feedback" and "Width" controls. Feedback adjusts the amount of the effected signal that is sent back through the effect, so it increases the overall intensity of the effect. Width controls the depth/amplitude of the modulation—that is, the size of the range in which the effect sweeps. These two additional knobs make the PT-909 more flexible than the earlier models.
This Maxon PT-909 Phase Tone dates from the late 70s and it is the earlier rectangle-box version of the pedal. Maxon produced both Maxon and Ibanez branded pedals, the latter, as noted, were for the export market whereas this example was for the domestic Japanese market.
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